Garden topiary

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Box square in the centre of the vegetable plot.

Box in the potager

The potager

We do not grow a lot of vegetables, but do have a small square (about 5 x 5 yards) in which we usually grow rhubarb, mint, courgettes, beans, rosemary, sage, leeks and lettuce. In the centre of this potager is a clipped box topiary form. the centrepiece is ordinary buxus sempervirens, and the triangular corners are the smaller suffruticosa - 3 bushes to each corner. For some reason the centre grows with a yellow leaf, but this turns green as it ages. Some tight clipping is needed to keep the shape, particularly the corners which do not have a lot of strentgth in their stems.